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Franklin Evans
fugitivemisreadings
24 June - 31 July 2021
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Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Franklin Evans. "fugitivemisreadings," the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, will open 24 June at 520 West 21st Street and remain on view through 31 July 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Raphael Rubinstein.
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FRANKLIN EVANS
decenteringfacespace, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
80 5/8 x 68 5/8 inches
204.8 x 174.3 cm
"My view of the world of art erases hierarchy, as emerging artist Karl Jones and his paper bag performative portraits and the fierce, underappreciated Mimi Gross decenter an entrenched canon of giants such as Henri Matisse and Albrecht Dürer."
- Franklin Evans
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FRANKLIN EVANS
sorrynotsorryrecursion, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
74 x 68 7/8 inches
188 x 174.9 cm
"The title announces my repurposing of Roy Lichtenstein’s portrait of Holly Solomon from 1966, the year of my conception. I paint all in joyful 'blue.'"
- Franklin Evans
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FRANKLIN EVANS
titianatilt, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
79 1/2 x 68 3/4 inches
201.9 x 174.6 cm
"This is my second, tilted take, painted near to scale, on Diana from Titian’s "Acteon," in the collection of London’s National Gallery. Layering and pouring paint atilt enliven a mythical death."
- Franklin Evans
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Franklin Evans Studio, 2021, New York, NY
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Franklin Evansselfportraitwithmatisse, 2019Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper15 1/8 x 11 1/4 inches
38.4 x 28.6 cm -
Franklin Evansjoyoflife2019, 2019Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper14 1/4 x 15 inches
36.2 x 38.1 cm
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Franklin Evanspaintingassupermodelaswatercolor, 2019Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper15 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches
38.7 x 41.6 cm
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Franklin Evans Studio, 2021, New York, NY
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FRANKLIN EVANS (b. in 1967 in Reno, NV) received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1989 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1993.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including “franklinfootpaths,” Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; “fugitivemisreadings,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “selfportraitas,” FL Gallery, Milan, Italy; “paintingpainting,” Ameringer | Yohe | Yohe Gallery, New York, NY; “XLtime,” Abrons Art Center, New York, NY; “spreadsheetspace,”Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway; “headandhandinhand,” Spazio 22 - FL Gallery, Milan, Italy; “fourpaintingstwowallsiowatonewyork,” Steven Zevitas Gallery, New York, NY; “juddpaintings,” Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA; “juddrules,” Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; “paintingassupermodel,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, New York, NY; and “timepaths,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; “houstontohouston,” DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; “UNTITLED,” Federico Luger, Miami, FL; “flatbedfactum02,” Federico Luger, Milan, Italy; and “eyesontheedge,” Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY.
Recent group exhibitions include “Walk The Line,” Platform Projects, Brooklyn, NY; “HyperGames,” FL Gallery, Milan, Italy; “Pole Santa Marta,” Contemporary/Contemporary, Verona, Italy; “Parameters,” The Clemente LES Gallery, New York, NY; “Rulers,” Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL; “Notebook,” 56 Henry, New York, NY; “Manet to Maya Lin,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; “Color Compositions,” Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; “Windows,” Next to Nothing, New York, NY; “Freestyle,” Atelier Les Copains, Milan, Italy; “The Nature Lab,” LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; “re.volt.ing,” The Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA; “La lama di Procopio,” Nuovo Spazio di Casso, Cosso, Italy; “Weekend,” Mindy Solomon, Miami, FL; “Legacy: Highlights from the Roanoke College Permanent Collection,” Olin Gallery, Salem, VA; “Stark Naked,” Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; “2 Years of Looking,” New Art Projects, London, United Kingdom; “RELEVANT NOTES,” Cara Gallery, New York, NY; “Dynamic Pictorial Models,” 101/Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA; “Shelf Life: Kate Gilmore and Franklin Evans,” P3 Studio at The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, NV; Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos, Greece; and “Re/Post,” Storefront Ten Eyck, New York, NY.
His work is included in many public and private collections including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; AGI Verona, Verona, Italy; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH; Roanoke College, Salem, VA; Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
He is a recipient of the 2017-18 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY; The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FLin 2017; National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH in 2016; Cosmopolitan/Art Production Fund P3Studio (collaboration with Kate Gilmore), Las Vegas, NV in 2015; NYFA Fellowship Painting, Suldal, Norway in 2015, among others.
Franklin Evans lives and works in New York, NY.